Re: Maven core : Plexus vs Spring / OSGi ?

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>   Note to plexus lovers :
>   CONTROVERSAL PROPOSAL, please don't blame me and just give good arguments !
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>  Maven is built on Plexus. This lightweight container is used (afaik) for :
>   - simple (javadoc) annotation-based programming model
>   - lifecycle management
>   - dependency injection
>   - classloader isolation for plugins (using classworld)
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>  Let's now consider the today responses to the same requirements :
>  - Since Java5, annotations are common, and JSR-250 introduces standard
>  annotations that can address some basic lifecycle and IoC requirements.
>  - The IoC container ecosystem is dominated by Springframework. Maybe not the
>  best technical one for any reason, but the best documented and most know by
>  developers.
>  - Classloader isolation is very well adressed by OSGi, with the advantage of
>  beeing a recognized standard, with many documentation AND business interest.
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>  Maybe Plexus was a very advanced container when it was created, but it did
>  not become the today 1rst choice technology.
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>  Considering an opensource tool like maven is built by volunteers developers,
>  it would be a good thing to attract talentuous ones to use up-to-date and
>  well known technologies. As an example, Archiva (trunk) is migrating to
>  Spring as it's IoC container.
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>  Could we consider for future maven version (let's say 2.2, or "3.0" - as 2.1
>  is allready in advanced development phase) to replace plexus with a
>  combination of Java5 + Spring + OSGi ?
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>  Nicolas.
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